Famous quotes containing the words xiv, army and/or corps:
“Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.”
—Louis XIV (1638–1715)
“A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)
“There was nothing to equal it in the whole history of the Corps Diplomatique.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)